Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/beuzą

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

Either from Proto-Indo-European *bʰews- (“dross, sediment”) or r-Turkic pora ("a grey kvas-like drink").[1] Alternatively reconstructed by Kroonen as *beurą, a dissimilation of earlier *breurą, derived from *brewwaną (“to brew”).[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbeu̯.zɑ̃/

Noun

*beuzą n

beer

Synonyms

*alu

Inflection

neuter a-stemDeclension of *beuzą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*beuzą	*beuzō
vocative	*beuzą	*beuzō
accusative	*beuzą	*beuzō
genitive	beuzas, biuzis	*beuzǫ̂
dative	*biuzai	*beuzamaz
instrumental	*beuzō	*beuzamiz

Derived terms

*beuzasaliz

Descendants

Old English: bēor
- Middle English: bere, beere
  - Scots: bere, beir, beer
  - English: beer (see there for further descendants)
Old Frisian: biār
- Saterland Frisian: Bjoor
- West Frisian: bier
Old Saxon: bior
- Middle Low German: bêr
  - Low German: Beer, Bier (Mecklenburg)
  - Plautdietsch: Bea
Old Dutch: *bior, *bier
- Middle Dutch: bier
  - Dutch: bier (see there for further descendants)
    - Afrikaans: bier
  - Limburgish: beer
  - → Old French: biere (see there for further descendants)
Old High German: bior
- Middle High German: bier
  - Alemannic German: Bier, Biär, Pier
  - Bavarian: Bäia
  - German: Bier (see there for further descendants)
  - Luxembourgish: Béier
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Pennsylvania German: Bier
  - Vilamovian: biyr
  - Yiddish: ביר‎ (bir)
Old Norse: bjórr
- Icelandic: bjór
- Faroese: bjór
- Norwegian: bjor
- → Old Irish: beóir
  - Irish: beoir

References

Hyllested, Adam. 2014.
Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 62

Hyllested, Adam. (2014). Word Exchange at the Gates of Europe: Five Millennia of Language Contact. Københavns Universitet, Det Humanistiske Fakultet. University of Copenhagen. pp.121.

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[1] Hyllested, Adam. 2014.

[2] Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 62